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@newt @joey @pesekcuy
There is a fine line between busting Apple's bullshit — there is plenty of: very well documented and some of it later officially admitted even, and believing schizo theories about Apple earning big bux on selling $20 cables, especially considering there always were cheaper alternatives — but thing is: it might work or… might not.

@newt @joey @pesekcuy
Guess what — at the exact same time when this theory took the centre stage, I had a phone — non-Apple one, that started shutting itself off because old battery couldn't provide the current to satisfy the SoC on performance spikes. If they didn't do this — people would be just complaining that their phones are rebooting randomly.

@newt @joey @pesekcuy
OMG, I'm the last person willing to defend Apple, I just know that a lot of these theories are utter crap.
Remember when everyone was complaining that Apple slows down old phones on purpose to motivate you to buy a new one? They indeed did limit the performance, but whether the motive is that remains to be confirmed by something else.

@newt @joey @pesekcuy
But that's the whole point — "cheapo android phones" don't have USB3 either, look at this: https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_poco_f6_pro-12992.php
It was released a little more than a week ago — it's not some niche device, and a quite popular brand.
Besides — most cheap android phones don't even have UFS 4.0 storage, there is simply nothing that could cause the overheating in them.

@newt
Valid point! But I prefer to just carry about 300 gigs of music with me (200 Gb SD card + some on internal storage) to avoid having to copy things over often. Sure, I throw a new album or two that I definitely want to listen on the go every now and than, but it doesn't happen too often, it's not tens of gigabytes, more like a couple — and this usually gets done in a minute or two — over wireless connection of course, I don't even have to look for a cable.
@joey @pesekcuy

@newt @joey @pesekcuy
I think they didn't care to go for higher throughput earlier because nearly no one needs that 🤷
Yep, there is an artificial limitation, but I think schizo theory explaining this might be false and real reasoning might be different: like preventing the flash controller from overheating having to handle such throughput.

@newt @joey @pesekcuy
When was the last time you had to copy something so big over to your phone than you could benefit from something speedier than a 300 Mbps wireless connection?
The only use case that comes to my mind is going on a trip, so you might want to take a few TV shows with you — but this usually doesn't happen SUDDENLY!!! On top of that, most people stream movies and they download if for offline use from the network anyway.

@gemlog
Yeah, you instance seems to be… spotty 😅
Today I'm boomarking these — the websites, not the post like I always used to. Now that I know that you posts might disappear sooner or later.
Maybe I should host a Tiny Tiny RSS instance myself? 🤔
Does it work well in older browsers, other than latest Chrome and Firefox? Does it require anything other than PHP?

@kaia @dushman @meso @meeper
Hair growth in itself might indicate that he's off chemo and as he's smiling, that might be a good sign — that was probably the reasoning of original poster on HN.
But otherwise yeah — until it's officially confirmed, we're just speculating.

@gospodin
I think the real problem might be that by the time the second guy looks like the first one, there might be very few people in their thirties or younger — irregardless of what they look like 😅

@kaia
I'd be fine not having at least some of these companies anywhere on the globe at all 😏
But I get your point.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
Or worse: until some undemocratic regime has fallen out of favour, US might be even assisting the local motherfucker in charge.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
There very often are equal assholes in power, they don't have the resources of US, but they also aren't subject to international scrutiny, and the freedom of press isn't even remotely close to that of the US. People hate their own governments — and very often rightfully so! No surprise that some would rather have US involved than die in the darkness or authoritarian regime fighting all that shit alone.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
It's not some uncontrollable process, not some natural occurrence "US always does it" — these decisions have people behind them, these people have names, the movie explores this topic really well by the way. And these people can be held responsible.
But it's not like on the other end there are noble barbarians living in mud huts, having the time of their lives, but then US came and ruined the idyllic livelihoods — no, far from it!

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld

Finding Ministry CD brought this thread back in memory.

I mean yeah, I'm pretty sure it had very bad effects domestically, but me simply agreeing with you on this would be a hypocrisy — I'm not a US citizen so it's hard for me to assess the extent of it. My point is that "US did it for the oil" — is a gross oversimplification, and it does neither party justice.

@eric
I knew they would go there at some point! I always liked how Live sacrificed flexibility to be more intuitive. But I suppose they don't have to do that anymore, now that it's mainstream.

@kirby @vncresolver
No need to be modest, I have even that shit on CDs somewhere. Didn't find it where I thought it would be though, only found HP-UX, but as it was on labelled CDRs, not on official media, I decided that it wouldn't make a good enough Fedi tech fetish photo.
Or maybe I should've 🤔 Those CDRs looked gold…
In any case, I've put it back into the cabinet already 😁

@eric
Yeah, I could even vaguely remember it not being obvious, but wasn't motivated enough to check 🤭

@kirby @vncresolver
"I'm kinda old-skool" 😅

@kaia
Gentrification of anonymous imageboards 🤪